The bike I ordered arrived last Sunday, and I used to for my RTO commute. As I said last time, it’s a Lectric XP 2.0 Step Thru.

tl;dr; So far so good!

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I’m intending to go to Burning Man for a second time. One place where I underdid it, was getting the cheapest bike that fit. It was old. It was rusty. The best thing about it was its blue colour. It was a pain to move anything other than myself with it.

So this year, I’d like to try something different, if a bit spendier: a folding electric bike.

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Since 2013, I’ve been going on the JoCoCruise. It’s also where I was when the pandemic was officially declared in 2020.

I got to go back, for JoCoCruise 2022!

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The following was written 7 months into the pandemic, at the listed published date. It was a dark time. I then proceeded to ignore this page until 2022-03-25.

Ah well.

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Today I gave a talk on Generics in Go, or rather, about the kinds of hoops we need to jump through to do something in Go when we don’t have Generics. In my case it’s invoking arbitrary functions together in a pipeline, like one needs to do for Apache Beam.

This post is a placeholder for an article version of the talk, but for now, here are the relevant links.

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Since Quarantime began, I’ve been working from home, and my desk solution has steadily evolved throughout that duration.

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Baba Is You is a delightfully constructed puzzle game from 2017. I like it.

It features a simple but powerful mechanic of putting together rules that modify gameplay.

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As a reminder for future me, and anyone who is curious, this is the set of things I used to set up this website.

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This situation doesn’t feel real. Time isn’t passing as it normally does. As it should. It’s not really a quarantine.

It’s Quarantime.

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